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That happens to be a spindle adapter for the smaller diameter records for a record player.
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That happens to be a spindle adapter for the smaller diameter records for a record player.
Opmmur
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Phonograph records are generally described by their diameter in inches (12", 10", 7"), the rotational speed in rpm at which they are played (16 2⁄3, 33 1⁄3, 45, 78), and their time capacity, determined by their diameter and speed (LP [long playing], 12-inch disc, 33 1⁄3 rpm; SP [single], 10-inch disc, 78 rpm, or 7-inch ...
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It looked like a fun time in the playground.
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Screw X-box...out of the way Pac-Man...make room for Fascination.
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Vintage Shoe-Fitting X-Ray Machines Will Zap Your Feet
How do you tell if a shoe is a good fit? Take a short walk? Squeeze the front-end with your fingers to make sure there is space for your toes? What about a dangerous, 20-second blast of unshielded x-rays? If you were buying shoes in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, it's likely that you regularly inserted a tootsie into one of these death-rays.
The wooden cabinets, possibly first built by a Clarence Karrer in Milwaukee in 1924, had the x-ray source in the base, and it would fire upwards through your foot and shoe. Due to a lack of any kind of shielding, it wouldn't stop there: the radiation would shoot right up into your baby-maker, clearly a perilous occurrence.
The machine, called a "Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope" put out 50 kv from its x-ray tube, which - according to Wikipedia's figures for today's machines, isn't too bad:
The problem was repeat exposure. While it was recommended that children not be subjected to more than 12 doses a year, there was no such luck for shoe-store employees. According to the article Shoe-fitting with x-ray in National Safety News 62 by H. Bavley (1950), store clerks would put their hands into the beam to squeeze shoes during fitting. Worse still was the fate of a poor shoe model, "who received such a serious radiation burn that her leg had to be amputated."
Thank God there's nothing this dangerous around today. Like, you know, full-body backscatter x-ray machines in airports.
How do you tell if a shoe is a good fit? Take a short walk? Squeeze the front-end with your fingers to make sure there is space for your toes? What about a dangerous, 20-second blast of unshielded x-rays? If you were buying shoes in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, it's likely that you regularly inserted a tootsie into one of these death-rays.
The wooden cabinets, possibly first built by a Clarence Karrer in Milwaukee in 1924, had the x-ray source in the base, and it would fire upwards through your foot and shoe. Due to a lack of any kind of shielding, it wouldn't stop there: the radiation would shoot right up into your baby-maker, clearly a perilous occurrence.
The machine, called a "Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope" put out 50 kv from its x-ray tube, which - according to Wikipedia's figures for today's machines, isn't too bad:
In medical radiography voltage from 20 kV in mammography up to 150 kV for chest radiography are used for diagnostic. Energy can go up to 250 kV for radiotherapy applications.
The problem was repeat exposure. While it was recommended that children not be subjected to more than 12 doses a year, there was no such luck for shoe-store employees. According to the article Shoe-fitting with x-ray in National Safety News 62 by H. Bavley (1950), store clerks would put their hands into the beam to squeeze shoes during fitting. Worse still was the fate of a poor shoe model, "who received such a serious radiation burn that her leg had to be amputated."
Thank God there's nothing this dangerous around today. Like, you know, full-body backscatter x-ray machines in airports.
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Over thirty years ago i bought one of these Munchman machines for both my sons, and i still have it today....
Neither of my sons believed me when i told them that one night i had scored over 10,000 points, they still dont believe me to this very day!!
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Neither of my sons believed me when i told them that one night i had scored over 10,000 points, they still dont believe me to this very day!!
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Available but not like that
Hurry where's my order.
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Gone in time.
Amazing that they caught the moment that the kid in the middle left of the picture plummeted to his death (or at lease a broken collar bone the way he's falling).